Ostler's Knucklehead of the Week nominees

August 4, 2013

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Grant Dalton
The current America’s Cup competitors have screwed up the event so badly that now they’re working on screwing up the next America’s Cup.
Dalton, the 56-year-old CEO of Team New Zealand, said if his team wins the Cup by defeating the U.S. team in San Francisco Bay, he will rewrite the rules for the next Cup to require all crew members to be citizens of the country of their team.
The current American crew has just two American sailors. To assemble a competitive crew of American sailors, Larry Ellison would have to clone those two guys. Which he can afford to do, but it seems kind of creepy.

Paul Chinn/The Chronicle

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Grant Dalton
The current America’s Cup competitors have screwed up the event so badly that now they’re working on screwing up the next America’s Cup.
Dalton, the 56-year-old CEO of Team New Zealand, said if his team wins the Cup by defeating the U.S. team in San Francisco Bay, he will rewrite the rules for the next Cup to require all crew members to be citizens of the country of their team.
The current American crew has just two American sailors. To assemble a competitive crew of American sailors, Larry Ellison would have to clone those two guys. Which he can afford to do, but it seems kind of creepy.